0606 GMT: Economy Watch. Alef, the newspaper linked to prominent MP Ahmad Tavakoli, has jabbed at officials for concealing the effects of sanctions: "People should be informed to prepare themselves".
0601 GMT: Facebook Petition of the Day. Press TV has launched a Facebook petition to save its services across Europe after the satellite provider Eutelsat SA suspended the broadcast of 19 Iranian State TV channels on Monday.
0555 GMT: All-is-Well Alert. Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, in the Azerbaijan capital Baku for the Economic Cooperation Organization summit, "Iran is a great country...and the West’s sanctions cannot have significant effects on our country’s economy."
0525 GMT: Iran Prosecutor General Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei covered a wide range of topics in his Monday press conference. He said President Ahmadinejad, who has reportedly asked to visit Evin Prison to see his detained senior advisor Ali Akbar Javanfekr, could do so after the necessary arrangement. He said death sentences for drug dealers would not be commuted. The date of release of the editor of the Maghreb newspaper, imprisoned in a raid earlier this month, was not clear.
The most striking comment by far, however, was Mohseni Ejei's follow-up to the news that more than 40 currency traders have been arrested this month: "Currency market disruptors will be executed."
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